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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Kroger Cabin
Kroger customers can help build a new cabin at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center by buying a $1 paper icon at any of the grocery retailer’s 173 stores across Georgia between now and Feb. 2.
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Invasive weeds
Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council annual conference set for Feb. 22 at the University of Georgia Tifton, Ga., Campus Conference Center.
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Extinction
When Hazel Wetzstein holds a tiny Georgia plume plant, she’s not just tending a future shrub. She’s keeping a native species from becoming extinct.
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Shocking results
Water is one of the world’s most precious resources. But if you combine it with salt and an electrical charge, it becomes one of the strongest disinfectants, too.
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Excellent pecan variety
Backyard pecan growers can’t effectively use fungicides to fight diseases in their trees. They must grow varieties with disease resistance. A new one provides protection and a big nut, too.
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Safe food talk
How safe is the food on your plate? Find out at a UGA lecture on food safety at 7 p.m. Jan. 29 in Masters Hall at the UGA Center for Continuing Education.
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Food contest
On March 18, the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development and Department of Food Science and Technology will reveal the winners of the second Flavor of Georgia contest.
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Peaches welcomed cold
Georgia peach farmers welcomed the cold snap that rolled through the state the first of this year. Their trees need more, though, but they probably won’t get it, says a University of Georgia fruit specialist.
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Dinner time
There was a feast in Georgia's Oconee National Forest last year. Southern pine beetles were munching away on weak, old trees. And the drought may have issued the invitation to dinner, a University of Georgia expert says.
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Holiday bills
If your cash ran out before your shopping list did, you probably relied on credit cards this holiday season. It’s time to develop a plan to tackle the debt before it grows out of control, says a University of Georgia financial expert.